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Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

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Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

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post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JFYI, maybe it is just me, but in Assets ->House you have: Effective yearly tax rate Yearly maintenance costs Yearly insurance rate I automatically visualize "rate" as a percentage but I see "costs" as being expressed in actual money, so I inserted ( believed to be inserting ) 2,000 Euro in maintenance costs which of course ended up being 2,000% of the asset value. Quickest bankrupt ever! Maybe Yearly Maintenance Rat…

Ah good call. I see how that can be confusing. Hopefully I'll also be able to add in a system where you can toggle some of these inputs between percent and fixed value as well.

Another side note.

Still in Assets->House.

Your simulator seems to work "by category", i.e. it takes expenses for the house (taxes, maintenance, insurance) from the value of the asset?

I.e. with constant income fixed 6000 (salary until retirement and same amount as pension, tax exempt, todays money, follow inflation), no living expenses, and only a house with value fixed to 200000 (but adjusted to inflation), 1% tax, 1% maintenance, 1% insurance, the value of the asset decreases.

That should be 6000 income tax exempt, 6000 expenses, same house, everything fixed but adjusted to inflation.

But it is not like you are going to pay taxes, maintenance or insurance with "slices" of your house.

Anyway, with those values I start at 25 Net Worth 200,000 (only the house) and end up at 92 with a house worth 26000 and a lot of cash, 121000.

Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

#84
post #82

It seems great but also too sophisticated.. Is there a simple mode or a persona I can clone and update? Wife, 2 kids, etc...

Not yet, but based on all the commentary here I'll definitely be adding a sandbox mode where you can jump into a pre-configured scenario based on templates like that.

Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

#86
post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah good call. I see how that can be confusing. Hopefully I'll also be able to add in a system where you can toggle some of these inputs between percent and fixed value as well.

Another side note. Still in Assets->House. Your simulator seems to work "by category", i.e. it takes expenses for the house (taxes, maintenance, insurance) from the value of the asset? I.e. with constant income fixed 6000 (salary until retirement and same amount as pension, tax exempt, todays money, follow inflation), no living expenses, and only a house with value fixed to 200000 (but adjusted to inflation), 1% tax,…

Hmmm, if you open up the "House" asset form and look at the "Value Change Over Time" field within the During Ownership section is it definitely set to "Match Inflation"? I just tried to replicate your scenario, and in mine the house maintains the 200k value throughout the simulation.

Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

#87
This is great, as somebody that's inexperience and uninterested in financial planning (but aware I can't ignore it), I really appreciate the simplicity and clear language.

I misread what you were saying in other comments about a sandbox and thought "nah, what this really needs is prefilled scenarios". Looks like you have the right idea: I'd absolutely love that, I have no idea what to fill in most of these boxes and would like some examples! That could orient your tool towards education rather than planning though

Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

#88
Looks like a direct alternative to Personal Capital, which I appreciate. Beyond a certain net worth, they continually reach out to you, which is annoying.

Love the net worth back testing screenshot on the front page, but wonder how reasonable it is.

Index funds weren’t available to the general public before the 70s IIRC, and investing fees were very different then.

Re: Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence

#90

FWIW, Morgan offers a similar type of service (free) as part of their yearly review with me. I'd be interested in seeing how close/different the projections are.

If you ever do a comparison, let me know! That would be cool to see.
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